Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Selected city: swinoujscie
Fortifications
Świnoujście
The fort's German name – Engelsburg, the Angel's Castle – is no accident. Its round, stepped brick tower reminded the builders of Rome's Castel Sant'Angelo, the papal fortress on the Tiber. Fort Angel was built in the mid-19th century as a…
Fortifications
Świnoujście
Fort Gerhard (Fort Gerharda) in Świnoujście is one of Europe's best-preserved 19th-century Prussian coastal forts, and a rare "living museum" where history is acted out rather than just displayed. It guards the mouth of the Świna River on…
Fortifications
Świnoujście
Fort Zachodni (West Fort) in Świnoujście is a 19th-century Prussian coastal battery at the mouth of the Świna River, now home to the Fortress History Museum. Ringed by a water-filled moat and overgrown with grass, it sits on the western ba…
Technical monuments
Świnoujście
The Świnoujście Lighthouse (roughly "shvee-no-OOY-shcheh") is the tallest lighthouse on the Polish coast and a striking piece of 19th-century engineering. Its brick tower rises 67.7 m (222 ft) above the mouth of the Świna River, on Wolin I…
Museums
Świnoujście
The Sea Fishing Museum (Muzeum Rybołówstwa Morskiego) in Świnoujście occupies the town's oldest building, the former town hall from the early 1800s on Plac Rybaka (Fisherman's Square), right by the Świna River waterfront. It is a compact m…
Gardens
Świnoujście
The Spa Park in Świnoujście (Park Zdrojowy; say "shvee-no-OOYSH-cheh") is a historic landscaped park between the port town center and the seaside spa district on the island of Usedom. In the 1820s Peter Joseph Lenné, the celebrated royal g…
Coast
Świnoujście
The beach in Świnoujście (roughly "shvee-no-OOYSH-cheh") is one of the best reasons to visit Poland's westernmost seaside town. This broad strip of pale sand on the island of Usedom (Uznam in Polish) runs from the harbor breakwater to the…
Fortifications
Świnoujście
The Underground City on Wolin Island (Podziemne Miasto, roughly "pod-ZHEM-neh MYAS-toh") in Świnoujście is a bunker complex where World War II and the Cold War meet. Hidden under the dunes of the Przytór district, a German coastal artiller…
Coast
Świnoujście
The Świnoujście promenade (say "shvee-no-OOYSH-cheh") is the seafront walkway of this Polish spa town on the island of Usedom, running parallel to the beach from the harbor breakwater to the German border. Its big selling point: it continu…
Technical monuments
Świnoujście
Stawa Młyny (roughly "STAH-vah MWIH-nih", "the Mills beacon") is a white, 10-meter navigation mark shaped like a windmill at the tip of the western breakwater in Świnoujście, where the Świna River meets the Baltic Sea. It is the town's bes…
Other
Świnoujście
Wybrzeże Władysława IV (Władysław IV Waterfront) is a quayside street and promenade along the Świna river in central Świnoujście, on the island of Usedom (Uznam) – the place where it is clearest that this is first and foremost a port town.…